Bible Crafts and Activities For Kids

How to Make Bible Crafts and Activities for Sunday School Relating to Washing Feet, Widow's Offering, Wise and Foolish Builder, Witnessing,Women at the Well, Don't Worry, Zacchaeus

Washing Feet

Jesus Washes the Disciples Feet

Scripture Reference: John 13:1-20

Make home-made soap using pure soap flakes (Lux pure soap flakes - detergent flakes won't work) as away to remind the children about the lesson. Make soap using 4 parts pure soap flakes to one part warm water. Just mix with hands and mould into bar of soap - leave on piece of foil to dry for approx. 48 hrs before use. You can add one drip of food coloring if want to color or a couple of drops of perfume. You can also mould it around a rope to make "soap on a rope".

Glue blue circle to the center of a sturdy paper plate. Glue on a two foot shapes, a small bar of soap on the blue circle, and pieces of terry cloth to represent a wash cloth. I wrote the Bible verse, " Serve only God" and "Jesus washed his disciples feet" around the edge of the paper plate. Sent in by Denise King

The Widow's Offering

The
Widow's Offering Sunday School Lesson Ideas

Scripture Reference: Mark 12:41-44 or Luke 21:1-4

Crafts:

We used an empty plastic container like a small baby wipes container
or a plain butter dish and let the kids decorate with stickers. We
cut a slit in the top for a bank and put two pennies in each child's
bank. We asked that they save more money in their banks to give to
the church. A clear container would be good so the children can see
the money.
Thanks, mm, for your suggestions.

This Sunday we
will be doing the story of the widow's offering with our combined
preschool and kindergarten class. (About 14 children, ages 2-5). For
the Bible activity, we are planning to hide coins around our Sunday
school room (one of the teachers will take the children to another
area or to visit another class while we are doing this). The children
each have to find two coins (we are using nickels) and then go and
deposit them in our "change for others" box. They can then
go back and look for two more coins, or help another child to find
a coin. Our Sunday School is in the middle of collecting money for
a mission outreach so this will tie in quite nicely. Our teachers
are each bringing in coins for this activity, and ultimately for the
mission outreach. We are also purchasing chocolate coins and the children
will each be given two to take home at the end of the morning. Elizabeth
Bartlett

Witnessing - Missions

Witnessing
Sunday School Lesson Ideas

Scripture Reference: Acts 17:1-34 and other journeys

Paul's
Missionary Journeys - This
is a great way to teach children about Paul's Missionary Journeys.
They will experience some of the same things that Paul and other missionaries
experienced. When they land on certain spaces like Bit by a
snake or Lose a turn, you can compare what happens to them while
playing the game to what Paul actually experienced.

Concepts: Paul traveled to many towns to tell people the Good
News. He faced many obstacles but God was with him wherever he went.
We can share God's message too. God's message is for all people
everywhere.

What
you will need: Large piece of foam core board or card board, markers,
paper, etc.

How to make:

1. To
see a simple Diagram of the game board click here. Draw four different cities in different
locations on the board. You may want to look at a map to be more
accurate with older children. I used: Berea, Athens and Thessalonica,
and Home. I didn't worry about accuracy. I was happy
if they just learned the names of the cities. Label each city
in bold letters. Draw a circle around all the cities except
home. Draw small circles on the lines of the large circle to make
spaces for the kids to land on. One space in each city should be
reserved for the temple. Draw a temple next to that space and connect
it to the space with a line.

2. Connect
the cities by drawing a line from each city circle to the middle
of the board. Draw the middle space big and write on the space Wait
for God to tell you which direction to go. Lose a Turn..

3. Between
the Home Space and the Middle Space (Wait for God) pick five different
spaces to write these words: Forgot your Bible, go back home, Lost
in the Desert, Lose a turn, Forgot to pray, Go back home,
Your camel died, Go back home, Bit by a snake and Lose a turn.

4. Draw
an "X" for "experinece" on about 4 or 5 spaces surrounding the city.

Object
of the Game: The object of the game is for each missionary team
to visit all three cities, land on the temple space, and witness to
the people. In order to witness the missionary team must answer
a question correctly (Witness Question Cards). If they don't answer a question correctly
they can keep circling the city until they land on the temple space
again, or they get thrown out of the city by landing on a space marked
by an "X". When a team lands on an "X" space they pick up a card and do
what the card says. The "X" cards have different situations on
them which Paul or another missionary experienced, such as being thrown
out of a city or mobbed, although not all of the "X"cards are bad.

How
to play:

1. Divide
the children up into teams. Explain that Paul and the other missionaries
usually traveled with a companion.

2. The
children take turns throwing a die and following the directions written
on the space they land on, if there are any.

3. In
order to win the game a team must land on all three temples in the
three cities and witness to the people of that city. To witness
they must answer a witness card correctly. You can provide a list
of the three cities on an index card to each team. When a
team answers a question correctly, they can mark an "X"in front of
the city they witnessed in.

Witnessing Crafts

Writing
the Bible Sunday School Lesson Ideas

Pretend to be Scribes

Scribes
used pens made by sharpening reeds with their knives. The made
ink by mixing soot with other substances to form a dried cake of ink.
When the scribe was ready to write, he would moisten his pen by dipping
it in water and then dipping it on the cake of ink to mix the ink
and then write. Your children can pretend to be scribes by using
sticks that have been sharpened at one end (Use sandpaper. Just rub
the end across the sand paper until it is sharp) and water colors.
Have them dip the stick in a glass of water and then in the water
color to make it moist. (It's basically painting with a stick).
Use a long piece of paper that they can write their memory verse on.
Talk about Bible scrolls and how they were made. When their
verse is dry, roll up the ends to make a scroll. You can tape craft
sticks or straws at the ends to make it easy to roll up. For more
information about how papyrus was made go to The Egyptian Bazaar web site.

Practice Writing the Hebrew Alphabet

Since the old testament was written in Hebrew, you can have your
children practice writing the characters. Print out the pattern provided and make enough copies for each child. They can practice
writing the character using the method above or just using markers.
Remember, Hebrew is written from right to left so the first letter
Alef is on the first column on the right. For move information on
the Hebrew language go to the Judaism
101 site.

Make a Flower Puppet

Cut
out flower shapes from construction paper. Glue on a circle
in the center.
Write
around the circle God cares for Us and on the bottom of the circle,
Matthew 6:25-34. Glue leaves on to each end of a green pipe
cleaner. Use two leaves at both ends to cover the pipe cleaner.
Have the children draw a face on the flower and color the paint
stir stick. You can probably get
the paint sticks free anywhere they sale paint. Wal-mart gave
me 30 of them for free. Have the children draw a face on their flower.
Wrap the pipe cleaner around the paint stick to form hands. You can
use your puppet to talk to the children about how much God loves us.

Make a Bird Puppet

Paint stir sticks (You can usually get these free
from paint stores) or large craft sticks, construction paper, low
temp glue or paper glue, crayons or markers.

How to make:

1. Before
class copy the Bird
Pattern.
(Printing Problems?) Cut out the bird and use it as a pattern to trace onto different
colors of construction paper.

Cut two birds per child.
If you are using paint sticks enlarge the patterns to double their
size. If you are using the large craft sticks, use the patterns
as they are.

2. Glue
the birds back to back onto the craft sticks or paint stir sticks
with hot melt glue or rubber cement. Do not glue the wings together.
Fold the wings down to the side of the bird so that it looks like
it is flying.

Jesus
Anointed with Perfume at Bethany Sunday
School Lesson Ideas

Scripture
Reference: Mark 14:1-9

Smelling Center

Make
a smelling center using old film canisters. Fill canisters with
spices, cut up fruits or vegetables, or anything that has a strong
smell. Put perfume in one. Have the children take turns guessing
what each canister smells like.

Perfume Bottle

Draw
a perfume bottle (or use pattern on heavy paper or poster board and cut it out. Have the children
paint it with water colors. Or have them glue on different color
tissue paper torn into pieces. Thanks, Gloria, for your ideas.